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I can only fit 13.5 lbs of grain in my kettle so working with that in a Brew in a Bag system with 65% efficiency I came up with the following for my first IPA. It's a little lower in alcohol and I'm not sure if the IBUs fit an IPA. It almost seems like a tweener between a pale and an IPA. I was...

I have been home brewing for about a year and I have a 2 year old daughter at home who is learning fast. She is interested in helping daddy on brew day and knows the names of many of dad's brewing tools. My fiance rolls her eyes at me whenever our daughter says "beer" or anything related to...

This is my first time using a dry yeast (Safale US-05). I pitched the dry yeast in to 70' wort and placed in a chest freezer set to 65'. At the 7 hour mark I saw two bubbles per minute with the wort holding at 65'. When I woke up in the morning there was no activity and temp control read...

This is my 3rd batch of beer with the first two coming out really good so I'm hoping to get some troubleshooting help on my 3rd batch, a hefeweizen, which I just sampled after 11 days of fermentation at 72' and 6 days in the bottle, and found a nice banana nose, good carbonation and first...

I am a new brewer with two batches of extract & specialty grain under my belt. I brewed an Amber and a Brown. I would like to brew a tasty, lower alcohol session beer. I can only ferment in my dark closet around 72' so I was wondering if any of you folks have some ideas/recipes for me on a...

My starter kit should arrive any day now and it comes with an Amber Ale recipe. My favorite beers have a caramel/hoppy taste and I was wondering if I can add anything to the given ingredients to make the Amber have those flavors. I like Cascazilla, Hop Head Red, Denogginizer, Wilco Tango Foxtrot...